I have 2 Gmail, 3 hotmail and 1 yahoo
28 x Gmail
3 x Yahoo
1 x hotmail
The gmail accounts have all the mail redirected to a master gmail account.
2 gmail 5 web.de 2 hotmail.de
I have 6 email accounts but that doesn't include the work email accounts that I own :)
In chronological order:
- a Hotmail I created on January 2006, after deleting my old one. You see, Counter-Strike was a very big deal back then, and a friend had suggested that I change my online nick, as I'd been having a losing streak and didn't want to get a reputation as a n00b. I promptly agreed and nuked my old account (which was called "exodia_cs1", because Yu-Gi-Oh was also serious business) as part of this transition to a new persona. I regret it now, I wish I'd kept a single address and stuck to it, but oh well.
- a Fastmail I created on May 2008, because the Russian e-mail address I used as my main one had started acting erratically (and eventually shut down altogether). Despite having an inactivity period of 120 days and traffic quotas, it's survived so far. I've thought about exporting all my messages and then ditching it, but I've kept it for the time being because 1. I want to avoid making my '06 mistake again, 2. I have it registered on several important places, this forum included, and 3. they no longer offer a free service.
- a live.com/Outlook account I created on November 2012 with my real name. My father had gone apeshit again, and I had this sudden realization I needed to get a job to make money and eventually escape this sort of shit, but needed a good "corporate identity" to achieve that, and the e-mail address with my '06 CS nick on its username and the '07 one in the "From" line wasn't going to cut it. I'd created a Hotmail with my real name a long time ago, circa 2002, but the 90-day inactivity period and my lack of reliable Internet access killed it. This is the one I use for everything related to my job, and to talk with people from there.
- ...I also have a GMail account with a government domain that was created for me on February 2013, after successfully applying for my current job and doing well on the entrance exam. I was so angry when I found out they'd made an account with my real name and without my permission
But it has unlimited storage space, yay. Almost never use this one because of a general distrust of Google Inc.
Plus a lot other accounts that got created as a throwaway, or for trackers, but I don't log in to and thus do not count for the purpose of this post.
I use the Web interface for all of them. Was thinking of switching to an e-mail client, but I need to see how well that would work to keep everything in sync when I use at least three different computers. IMAP seems to be best for this. Speaking of which, when we didn't yet have a computer at home, there was this little gadget from the phone company. It could drive up to five POP3 accounts.
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
Well, it looks like I'll be saying goodbye to the aforementioned Fastmail account soon.
Important information about your FastMail account, Guest accounts are being discontinued
From: The FastMail Team <support@fastmail.com> [Add]
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:23 (2 days 17 hours ago)
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Dear [REDACTED]
We have some important information about your **[REDACTED]**
FastMail account.
**From 31st July, 2017 our 'Guest' level plans will be discontinued.**
To continue using your FastMail account after this time you'll need to
[select one of our current
plans](https://www.fastmail.com/settings/plan).
In recognition of being a long-time FastMail user we're offering you
**50% OFF all upgrades until the end of July**, which includes our
already discounted multi-year subscriptions.
And if you upgrade now we'll also add all the remaining time until 31
July for free!
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'Guest' level accounts have not been available to new customers since
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of remaining 'Guest' users we have decided to no longer support this
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We thank you for using FastMail over the years, and hope you decide to
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Regards,
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"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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Well last year a free e-mail web service provider (also ISP) did the same here in my country (it's called IG) and I had an account there with some trackers registered using it. Was able to change most of them.
Last edited by alpacino; 27.01.17 at 05:02.
it's hip to be square
I may have been browsing The SCP Foundation a bit too muchOriginally Posted by alpacino
That's a lot of Redacted over there
I'll have to do the same, and tell anyone who only knew that address that I should be reached at my hotmail.com box now (which has been working for 11 years straight). Looks like this is bound to happen with any provider that isn't Microsoft, Google or Yahoo. I've been meaning to give up all my current accounts in favor of a privacy-oriented e-mail service, but we all saw what happened to Lavabit.Well last year a free e-mail web service provider (also ISP) did the same here in my country (it's called IG) and I had an account there with some trackers registered using it. Was able to change most of them.
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
before that they introduced some limitations, like removing the ability to send messages (becoming receive-only accounts)
yahoo had a major cleanup some years ago, wherein they deleted many unused or rarely used accounts
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